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διεξῆκαν. The story of the escapes of Cyrene is full of suspicious elements, the λόγιον, the presence of the admiral (§ 2), the panic (§ 3); nor is it consistent (§ 2) with H.'s view that the Persian expedition aimed at general conquest (c. 145 n.), or with the attack on Euesperides (c. 204). Probably it is a version made up after the fall of the Battiads by Cyrenaean vanity. Menecles (F. H. G. iv. 449, fr. 2) represents Pheretime as having at once established her grandson Battus IV on the throne, and then as subduing a Cyrenaean rebellion with a Persian army.

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